Quotes by : Edith Hamilton

It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts;....

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on....

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which....

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while....

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

She was brave from excess of grief